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Forms of Abuse

Physical Abuse

  • Punching or kicking walls
  • Hitting
  • Hair-pulling
  • Being forceful
  • Using weapons
  • Pushing someone out of a car
  • Punching
  • Slapping
  • Grabbing
  • Blocking a doorway
  • Choking
  • Driving in a scary/unsafe way
  • Kicking
  • Pushing
  • Throwing things
  • Getting in someone’s face
  • Punching
  • Shoving
  • Breaking things
  • Physically restraining someone
  • Burning
  • Pinching
  • Being intimidating

Verbal Abuse

  • Answering questions for the other person
  • Yelling
  • Not allowing the other person to speak
  • Shouting
  • Speaking in a patronizing manner
  • Cursing
  • Talking over someone
  • Constantly interrupting

Mental Abuse

  • Lying or twisting things around
  • Always being right
  • Accusing the other person of things which they are not guilty
  • Tricking someone
  • Blaming the other person for one’s own mistakes
  • Hiding personal items from someone
  • Believing the other person is always wrong

Emotional Abuse

  • Insulting
  • Possessiveness
  • Constantly checking up on the person
  • Jealousy
  • Not respecting feelings
  • Devaluing a person’s point of view
  • Ridiculing
  • Ordering someone around
  • Spying on a person through others
  • Threatening
  • Destroying personal property
  • Putting someone down
  • Ignoring
  • Ruining a person’s reputation
  • Humiliating someone

Sexual Abuse

  • Not listening to the word “No”
  • Rape
  • Deliberately not talking about birth control methods
  • Unwanted touching
  • Pressure or coercion to become a parent or end a pregnancy by one partner
  • Vulgar comments
  • Getting someone pregnant to prevent them from leaving
  • Pressure to have sex

Financial Abuse

  • Making the other person ask for money
  • Giving the other person an allowance
  • Hiding knowledge of, or access to the family income
  • Taking the other person’s money
  • Preventing the other person from getting or keeping a job

Abuse in any form is never acceptable. You deserve more. If you feel you may be a victim of abuse, you can call our 24-hour hotline: 631-666-8833.

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